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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by mbreese on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:43PM (#25708410)
I'm guessing it's because they don't advertise^ plans for violence in public... or on Twitter.

Edit: ^specific plans

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by tidepod12 on Saturday January 09, 2021 @09:50PM (#25708545)
https://twitter.com/Zabehulah_M33/status/1346373559812300800

This is the official spokesman of the Taliban posting a propaganda video of a militant bragging about waging jihad.

https://twitter.com/Zabehulah_M33/status/1343458261459218432

This is another video (and also see part2 of the tweet, which is posted as a reply to this one) where militants holding guns talk about their plan to kill the government leaders of Afghanistan.

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by Apocryphon on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:27PM (#25709159)
These Silicon Valley-based corporations are no doubt highly ineffective at moderating content outside of a specific American, Anglophone context. Certainly the Rohingya know the fruits of their failure:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16574370

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15296442

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Re:Amazon, Apple and Google Cut Off Parler by megous on Saturday January 09, 2021 @10:42PM (#25709422)
Hmm, that sounds a whole lot like the basis for banings of Parler. Inability/unwillingness to moderate such things effectively.

In the end this is all about some virtue signaling towards their own employees (so that they don't start quitting and are not unhappy) and about money.

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